MUMBAI (Reuters) - Out-of-job bar dancers in India's financial hub of Mumbai said on Friday they would contest elections to the city council in a bid to overturn a ban on their popular nightspots that ...

The ban in Maharashtra on beer bars where women employees dance has completed five years. The prohibition is in line with colonial law that encoded the dominant morality of the colonisers and the ...

Six nights a week, Aanam Khan (name changed) dresses in a ghaghra-choli for work. She is a bar girl based in Mumbai's Mira Road suburb, and also works in a bar in Mumbai Central on certain days.